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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, According to the phrase of this Text, death is called a gathering to God; If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath.
Whence Note, Fourthly.
The spirit or soul of man hath its original from God.
It is of him to whom it returneth; The soul or spirit of man is of God in a more special way then his body is; for though God giveth both, yet the Scripture (in the place before named) speaks of the soul as the gift of God, but passeth by the body; (Eccles. 12.7.) The dust shall return to the earth, as it was; and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. 'Tis God, not man alone, who hath given us these bodies, but 'tis not man, but God alone who hath given us these spirits; therefore men are called the fathers of our flesh, that is, of the body, in way of distinction, from God, who is the father of spirits (Heb. 12.9